Something mildly amusing to take things off the edge: Donald Trump bought the domain names jebbush.com and hillaryclinton.net. I was not aware of this until today.
Go on, try them. You'll be horrified.
This is a key insight. Many would agree high corporate taxation is among the reasons US jobs have been transferred abroad. But what Trump significantly adds is deportation of illegals, the Great Wall, and much more aggressive deal-making with respect to foreign trade arrangements. Trump boldly proposes putting the interests of US citizens distinctly ahead of the interests of the remainder of the world's peoples. This is the essence of nationalism and the populist fervor that he has inspired amongst a broad spectrum of Americans.
With the prospect of a 20 trillion dollar debt bubble collapsing over the US (not to mention the global debt bubble), you are probably right that it is a fantasy that well-paying jobs will ever again be widely available to middle and lower class US citizens. That is, unless Trump - or another like him - is elected and fulfills his promises.
Dollar for dollar, robots cost less to maintain than the average worker, I mean take a look at the automotive industry today compared to 50 years ago. Today it is manned with robots thanks to the unions whereas humans manned the assembly line back then. The food industry will suffer the same fate before too long if the push for unionization keeps up.
the many competitive advantages that the US enjoyed over the last two centuries have more or less disappeared, what that rest may be, is the continued erosion of the standard of living of the American working classes & middles classes.
Oh the irony...Something mildly amusing to take things off the edge: Donald Trump bought the domain names jebbush.com and hillaryclinton.net. I was not aware of this until today.
Go on, try them. You'll be horrified.
He replied back... can't find a source but just saw it on Faux
Big Trump's Official OpeningIf and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated unlike what is happening now with our all talk, no action politicians.
The Mexican government and its leadership has made many disparaging remarks about me to the Pope, because they want to continue to rip off the United States, both on trade and at the border, and they understand I am totally wise to them. The Pope only heard one side of the story - he didn’t see the crime, the drug trafficking and the negative economic impact the current policies have on the United States. He doesn’t see how Mexican leadership is outsmarting President Obama and our leadership in every aspect of negotiation.
For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I am proud to be a Christian and as President I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now, with our current President. No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith. They are using the Pope as a pawn and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so, especially when so many lives are involved and when illegal immigration is so rampant.
Trump's constituents are US voters. The Pope's constituents are the world's Catholics.So it's all a conspiracy by the Mexicans to put Mexican interests ahead of American interests, then? How is that any different to Trump putting American interests ahead of everyone else? He can't complain when someone does exactly what he did.
Not if you are cutting discretionary social services in the process like Obamacare. Sure it won't sit well with some voters, but they are primarily in favor of large tax increases for expanded social spending regardless.On another note, Rubio is the biggest idiot of them all. Why? This buffoon claims he wants to cut taxes but at the same time want to increase spending on the military. Somebody should tell clueless idiot any form of spending is an tax incrase not a tax cut. If anything Rubio is no different in being fiscally irresponsible then former president(and the clueless one currently in office)
Trump does believe in God.. unfortunately he thinks it's him.It's soo obvious Trump is an Athiest
Not if you are cutting discretionary social services in the process like Obamacare. Sure it won't sit well with some voters, but they are primarily in favor of large tax increases for expanded social spending regardless.
Not if you are cutting discretionary social services in the process like Obamacare. Sure it won't sit well with some voters, but they are primarily in favor of large tax increases for expanded social spending regardless.
Trump does believe in God.. unfortunately he thinks it's him.
Nationalism and populism, once aroused and unleashed, can be the wildest and most dangerous of all cultural forces. Woe betide those who would underestimate how serious this is.Are you actually taking the Doland serious like?
So nebulous. I could ask you to back that up but I'm sure you could find some cooked numbers to support these statements. Standard of living is such a difficult thing to pin down. What's even harder is to pin down the driving factors of changes in the standard of living.
Kanye's 2020 credentials suddenly seem more and more robust.
Well the driving factors would be: an historically unprecedented population growth rate in the US from about 3 million in the late 1700's to over 300 million in the late 1900's, & access to almost unlimited (by European standards) "unoccupied" land & vast natural resources, together with an unprecedented explosion in technological innovation - these combined to create a massive increase in living standards across a broad spectrum of American society.
Those circumstances & the resulting growth in wealth is unlikely ever to happen again in human history, certainly not in the US & certainly not in your lifetime. Nothing any US politician says or does - not Trump, or Cruz, or Bush, or Clinton or Sanders - will bring back anything like those growth rates in the future.
From the 1950's to around 1980 the growth in wealth in the US (& Europe) was fairly widely distributed, due to the introduction of "socialist" policies & aggressively progressive taxation. Since the beginning of the 1980's - with the introduction of "trickle down" economics - wealth in the US has become more & more concentrated in the hands of a very small percentage of the population. The globalization of the economy has facilitated this, as it has allowed the capitalist class to move production out of the US in order to maximize profits.
It's really not that nebulous - & the numbers don't have to be "cooked" - they're pretty indisputable. What you make of them is another matter.